At 23.44 on Sunday night, hours after Barcelona defeated Real Madrid (4-3) and left the League practically seen for sentence, the Royal Spanish Football Federation hung on its social networks the audio with which the arbitration body, directed on the pitch by Alejandro Hernández Hernández and Juan Martínez Munuera from the VARjustified the cancellation of a goal to Fermín that would have settled the duel in the 95th minute. It would have been 5-3.
The ball had bouncing in Fermín's hand, but the action continued and the Barca midfielder, without the referee pointing at anything, stole the ball from Fede Valverde to start his career towards Courtois and put together his shot to goal.
“Álex (Hernández Hernández), listen to me, we just detected a hand. Ok? Come see her, please,” they warned him from the Vor room.
When the image was frozen in the ball hitting Fermín's left arm, in the second 37 of the audio broadcast by the RFEF, it can be heard sharply: “Luckily”. The comment, which was not transcribed by the Federation and whose authorship is presupposed to Martínez Munuera, occurred before Hernández Hernández went to the monitor to review the episode.
Then, the main referee said: “Ok, perfect, the hand is clearly above. I will cancel the goal.”
In another of the conflicting episodes of the afternoon, Martínez Munuera invited Hernández Hernández to vision a hand of Tchouaméni in the area after a shot by Ferran Torres. The French footballer of Real Madrid had his arm taken off from the body. “There you have the images, it is a shot on the door. We do not have many more powerful cameras,” they told the main referee from the Vor room. “The impact occurs with the arm down, for me it is not a penalty, “Hernández Hernández was justified to ignore the action.
Skirmish
The arbitral skirmishes, then, continues in a Spanish football that, far from protecting, has allowed a suspected mist to the collective that Luis Medina Cantalejo presides. The Technical Referee Committee (CTA), in fact, held last Thursday a meeting at the LaLiga headquarters in which it continued with its intention to correct its dysfunctions. A meeting in which, according to the newspaper AS, Both Hernández Hernández participatedthe arbitrator of the classic and that is part of the arbitration reform commission, as a Real Madrid representative via Telematics, Begoña Sanz, deputy general director of the entity.
This meeting came after the serious crisis lived on the eve of the dispute of the final of the Copa del Rey in Seville, when Real Madrid threatened to not appear to the party if they did not change the designated referees, Ricardo de Burgos Bengexea (main referee) and Pablo González Fuertes (VAR). The argument, that the first had been crying during the public appearance of the morning prior to the final -“I tell my son that I am a thief,” he said-, and that the second had lashed out at the Real Madrid TV videos in which the official chain of the White Club points to the members who judge their matches.
They had to intervene high government and state instances For Real Madrid to recular and play the Cup final after having refused to train the day before in the Cartuja and to offer the press conference of his coach, Carlo Ancelotti, and his captain, Luka Modric, before the media. Real Madrid fell into the extension of the Cup final against Barcelona (3-2) on a night that ended with Rüdiger throwing ice into the referee.
